Inspired by the use of the bass viol in Bach cantatas as well as jazz groups. Includes two piano reductions: Concert Pitch and Solo Tuning in D. Co-commissioned by 15 orchestras and the International Society of Bassists.
Score and Parts-This 1994 single-movement work is based on a hymn-like theme that both evokes the tradition of American hymn singing and echoes the much older tradition of plainchant. 22 minutes.
Libretto. New York's Metropolitan Opera ushers in the new millennium with the world premiere of John Harbison's splendid opera The Great Gatsby with a libretto based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Among the highlights oft
Soprano and Piano. Cycle of 6 songs. Simple Daylight was commissioned by Lincoln Center and dedicated to its first singer Dawn Upshaw. The music is set to poems in Michael Fried's To the Center of the Earth creating a song cycle
Originally for soprano and orchestra these 7 songs on the poetry of Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz were premiered by Dawn Upshaw and the New York Philharmonic in 2006.
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